As
I mentioned on Coast-to-Coast AM recently, I found another of those one-off UFO
magazines that attempts to capitalize on the interest in alien visitation. I
looked at the Roswell entry and noticed they mentioned the Project Mogul
nonsense. I have covered this at length on this blog and in my recent books
about the Roswell crash/retrieval. I’ll make one quick point here. Well, maybe
two…
First,
Flight No. 4, listed as the culprit here, that is, this flight was the one that
allegedly scattered the debris for Mack Brazel to find was not launched. The
documentation tells us that the flight was canceled. I do not understand how this
documentation can be overlooked. If the flight didn’t fly, it did not scatter
the debris.
There
is a second point. According to what Charles Moore, one of the engineers who
worked on the project back in 1947, told me, Flight No. 4, was configured just
like Flight No. 5. While there is no schematic for Flight No. 4 (reinforcing
the idea that it didn’t fly), we have the schematic for Flight No. 5, courtesy
of the Air Force investigation of the Roswell case. There were no rawin radar targets
on that flight, which raises the question, “Where did the rawin target
photographed in General Ramey’s office originate?” It certainly didn’t come
from Roswell.
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| Charles Moore reviewing winds aloft data at the school library in Socorro. Photo by Kevin randle |
Second,
the testimony of Sheridan Cavitt, the CIC officer in Roswell at the time,
carries great weight. However, what Cavitt told Don Schmitt and me when we met
him, he wasn’t even in Roswell at the time. Later, he would tell Don and me,
that he was too busy with security investigations to be chasing weather
balloons.
I
did ask him, given that the description of the officer who accompanied Jesse
Marcel, Sr. out to the debris, meaning he was a West Texas boy who could ride
horses, about his denial. He said that it sounded like him, but he insisted
that he had not gone to the debris field.
Now,
this could be boiled down to me spreading tales, but there is documentation
about this. In the Air Force report, The Roswell Report: Fact vs Fiction in
the New Mexico Desert, Cavitt’s interview conducted by Colonel Richard
Weaver is published. Weaver asked about the incident that happened during the
early part of July. Cavitt responded:
We
went out to this site. There were no, as I understand, check points or anything
like that (going through guards and that sort of garbage) we went out there and
we found it. It was a small amount of, as I recall, bamboo sticks, reflective
sort of material that would, well at first glance, you would probably think it
was aluminum foil… I do not remember if Marcel was there or not on the site. He
could have been. We took it back to the intelligence room… in the CIC office.
RW:
What did you think it was when you recovered it?
SC:
I thought it was a weather balloon.
I
always wonder why, if Cavitt had identified the material while still on the
ranch, he hadn’t communicated this rather important piece of intelligence to
Colonel Blanchard and saved him the embarrassment of telling the world they had
recovered a flying saucer… but I digress.
I
have a letter, written by Cavitt to Doyle Rees, one time officer in charge of
the CIC office in Albuquerque, on December 6, 1989. He was answering a letter
from Rees, which I think was generated by the original Unsolved Mysteries
show on Roswell that had aired several weeks earlier. I think this because that
show is mentioned in the letter.
In
the letter, Cavitt wrote, “…Marcel was a smart man; a good friend, a Louisiana
Cajun, who was prone to be excitable, and, in this case wrong in that Cavitt
had been along on that caper.”
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| Sheridan Cavitt interview in Arizona with Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt. Photo by Kevin Randle |
I
don’t know why Cavitt would lie to Rees, unless had not been the senior officer
of the CIC in the area at the time, and therefore, hadn’t been read into the
crash when he, Rees, arrived in Albuquerque. The point is that Cavitt told
fellow CIC officer, Rees, he hadn’t been there, but then told Weaver that not
only was he there, he recognized the debris as that from a weather balloon…
Of
course, that still doesn’t explain the picture of the rawin target taken in
Ramey’s office, that was published on July 9, 1947, for all the world to see. Where
did that debris originate?
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| Roger Ramey and Thomas DuBose with the remains of a rawin target. Since there were no rawin targets on the early flights of Mogul balloons, the question is where did the rawin originate? |
But,
of course, that’s fine because we all know that it was really part of
Project Mogul…
(Blogger’s Note: For those interested in a
comprehensive analysis of the Project Mogul explanation, I recommend Roswell in the 21st
Century. This provides more evidence that Project Mogul was not a part of
this story until injected into it in the late 1980s.)
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